Using AI Test Automation for Faster Software Releases

9 red flags that scream – You need Intelligent Test Automation, NOW!

Do you want to be part of the upper echelons – the elite class of the business world? If Yes, then the next-gen technologies – Automation, AI and ML will help you get there!!

But, you may have some obvious questions before investing or using Automation Testing for the first time.

Is my application ready for automation?

How will I measure the results? Where is the proof that AI actually helps?

Will AI actually help me enhance my end-user experience?

Can my project be audit-ready and ensure compliance?

To answer these questions and get started on the Intelligent Test Automation, it’s crucial to understand what value it brings to the table.
Beyond traditional testing tools, a new generation of intelligent and decision-enabling tools and technologies are emerging. AI and ML are fueling the adoption of intelligent testing solutions and are providing spectacular breakthroughs to businesses by giving actionable insights and helping in intelligent decision making.

Businesses are at the cusp of innovative and intelligent automation. AI has now moved from the incubator to mass adoption. An ever-growing number of product teams have discovered the gamut of business benefits AI provides – from cost benefits, finding innovative solutions for everyday problems to having an impact on user happiness and engagement. 

The need for high-quality testing is growing across all domains. From e-learning to e-commerce, medical to finance AI can bring the best solutions to enhance customer experience. 

According to research by Accenture, every industry benefits from AI with a share-of-profit increase. The following figure depicts the share-of-profit increase per industry between baseline in 2035 and AI steady state in 2035 (%).

9 Red Flags That Scream – You Need Intelligent Test Automation, NOW!

Let’s look at the red flags and see how Intelligent Test Automation can help you overcome them and turn them into advantages.

1. Your Developers and Testers are Having Effort Burnout

One noticeable benefit coming from automation is effort reduction, resulting in improvement in team productivity.

Intelligent Automation tool has the ability to work 24*7, 365 days a year, and at war speed. By eliminating the mundane and repetitive tasks, your teams can reclaim time to focus on more productive tasks.
To address the thousands of hours lost by QA professionals, Webomates created its patented AI Defect Predictor tool. This tool is provided to the development and QA

teams that use CI/CD service to help them reduce their triage time. It shares true Pass and true Fail reports with the development team along with an in-depth analysis of automation failures.

2. You are Not Able to Detect Your Defects at an Early Stage

Shift Left your entire Testing! Shift Left testing provides an effective means to perform testing in parallel to development processes, enabling faster, better, and quality applications and enhancing collaboration between development, operation, and testing teams.
With the ‘test early and often’ mantra to perform testing earlier in the life cycle, the goal is to prevent defects and mitigate risks rather than deal with a whole load of bugs and critical issues post-development. It helps in building a good product where UI, API, Load, and Security are not left out to be tested as a different component at the end.

3. You are Unable to Run Their Tests Whenever You Need to

Applications are getting complex and their success mostly depends on how well you can keep the applications and their functionalities up and running even during repeated updates. Test cases keep changing due to a defect fix or feature change. You need to validate these changes in every build. This creates immense pressure on your testing teams. 

At Webomates, defect discovery is shifted left with testing of existing suites (High priority scenarios) carried out in 3 environments to ensure that the existing application is not broken:

• Staging: Every build goes through a full regression for 24 hours in a staging or pre-production environment before release to production.
• Integration: Overnight module regression is used to test specific module-level changes and integrations with results delivered in 8 hours with a modified test package.
• Development: Webomates use mini regression suites that can be as granular as at the feature level with results delivered in 15 minutes to 1 hour.

4. Your Applications can Pose a Security and Data Privacy Threat

Today’s devices are IoT-connected. Applications are now available across every device, every browser, all the time to provide a frictionless experience! With immense data availability, your customer’s private and confidential data could be at risk if hackers can exploit any vulnerability they can find in your application..
By using AI in Security Testing, Exploratory Testing, and Performance Testing, you can safeguard your application by making the system hackproof and sustainable.

5. What to Test? When to Test? How to Test? You are Unable to Reap The Benefits of Test Optimization

A key focus of Intelligent automation is test optimization. You need the right tests at the right time, in the right way! 

Do you need to run all test cases whenever there is a change? No! You just identify the test cases that are modified due to that change and run only those cases! You need to run the right tests at the right time. But that’s not the end of it! 
You also need to determine the ideal method for executing a test case. Automation execution is not always the right answer. Manual testing or crowdsourcing are perfectly viable options when used correctly. AI systems are ideal for determining the area to test as well as the method to test and to failover.

6. Your Technical Debt Keeps Increasing

With traditional ways of identifying defects at the last stages, there is less time to fix defects, thereby increasing the likelihood that they will be postponed until later increments or versions of the system, thus creating a “bow wave” of technical debt.
With the help of automated creation and execution of test data, test cases, and test scripts along with runtime Self-healing capability, the teams can resolve any failures in regression tests quickly. These solutions help the teams to reduce the test suite maintenance effort and improve turnaround time.

7. You are Unable to Take on-the-go Intelligent Decisions Due to a Lack of Insights

Automation of a task is one thing – anyone can do it. But making is the key to improved efficiency. True intelligence starts when you can make data-driven, intelligent decisions on demand. For that, testers need a tool that can provide pre-emptive and preventive actionable insights.
Tools like Webomates help you with test insights into the entire CI/CD pipeline to understand the impact every change is having on the product and provide guidance and strategic benefits to test management. 

8. You are Never Audit-Ready

Every industry has regulatory bodies that put an emphasis on creating quality products. Fintech companies have to meet compliance standards like PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) international security standards to secure their customers’ data and privacy. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has compliance regulations and is responsible for ensuring medical devices in the United States are safe and effective throughout their total product lifecycle.

If your business doesn’t have a perfect audit trail, there could be serious consequences.  Intelligent Automation tools help you be audit-ready by keeping a perfect audit trail of all the activities and enable you to provide a greater value to the business.  

Webomates CQ portal’s reporting & auditing capability makes sure the customer platform is compliant. As every new build is released, Webomates CQ verifies the quality of the build. These auditable reports are the basis of getting the required approvals for the product.

9. Your System Fails When There are New Changes Introduced

The complexity of applications increases exponentially as new features are added to the existing functionality. One simple change in the UI can break your system due to the rigid test automation failure where any change in one element directly or indirectly impacts some other element. The test cases need to be updated on a regular basis to reflect every change.Webomates has a matured UI testing strategy where any changes in the UI are reflected as updated test cases within 24 hours. Various UI Testing tools and different UI frameworks called the Galen framework are used for visual testing of applications for UI verification.

Take The First Step, Make The Move!

Although AI technologies have advanced significantly in recent years, very few teams have adopted them. With such a broad spectrum of Intelligent Automation benefits, you will dramatically change the landscape of your operations by adopting AI ML-powered Automation tools. So where do you begin?

Some of the best practices that you can follow are:

How can We Help You?

The right tool can help you reinvigorate and accelerate the success of your automation journey! You need a collaborator who can understand your testing requirements and provide you with intelligent testing solutions and business benefits that AI brings. 

Webomates is one of the leading testing solution providers with its innovative AI and ML powered solutions for your testing needs.We also bring together our patented tools and technologies that deliver end-to-end intelligent automation solutions customized for you!

With Webomates Testing-as-a-service patented AI testing platform, we are at the forefront of Intelligent Test Automation, and you get:

• A self-service SaaS portal to test your application’s functionality
• Test management suite 
• Catalog-based system to choose the type of testing service  
• On-demand automated testing lab
• Real-time monitoring portal with actionable insights
• Leverage patented AI-ML powered Defect Predictor tool that can help you identify defects 
• Detailed Test Analysis
• Audit ready artifacts for your compliance approvals 
• Highly skilled and experienced testers with domain knowledge    

Please reach out to us to learn more about our AI-powered software testing solutions and how it can help you improve your business outcomes!

Tags: AI Testing, Intelligent automation, Shift Left Testing